{"id":28007,"date":"2018-07-18T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=28007"},"modified":"2018-08-01T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:44:49","slug":"geraldine-higgins-talks-to-norma-burke-about-the-seamus-heaney-exhibition-listen-now-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=28007","title":{"rendered":"Geraldine Higgins talks to Norma Burke about the Seamus Heaney exhibition Listen Now Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28012\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-156x110.jpg 156w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-90x63.jpg 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-370x261.jpg 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/heaney-627x442.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The much anticipated Seamus Heaney exhibition &#8216; Listen Now Again&#8217; opened in July 2018. The exhibition is at the new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ie\/maps\/place\/53%C2%B020'41.2%22N+6%C2%B015'33.8%22W\/@53.344771,-6.260496,18z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x48670e9b5ede1571:0xdaa2f3979c93c745!2sCollege+Green,+Dublin!3b1!8m2!3d53.3444316!4d-6.2608796!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d53.3\" rel=\"external\">Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre at College Green \u2013 entrance via Westmoreland Street<\/a>. The exhibition will run for three years.<\/p>\n<p>A partnership project between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.ie\/\">National Library of Ireland<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chg.gov.ie\/\">Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofireland.com\/about-bank-of-ireland\/press-releases\/2015\/landmark-international-heaney-exhibition-announced-for-bank-of-ireland-on-college-green\/\">Bank of Ireland<\/a>, the exhibition draws on the National Library\u2019s extensive archive of Heaney documents and\u00a0features Heaney\u2019s original manuscripts as well as letters, unpublished works, diary entries, photographs, note books, and multi-media recordings.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first exhibition to be housed in the new Bank of Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofireland.com\/about-bank-of-ireland\/press-releases\/2014\/bank-ireland-make-available-new-cultural-heritage-centre-within-college-green-complex-state-period-10-years\/\">Cultural and Heritage Centre<\/a> within Bank of Ireland\u2019s College Green complex. Curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/english.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/faculty_pages\/higgins.html\">Professor Geraldine Higgins<\/a>, Director of Irish Studies at Emory University, and designed by Ralph Appelbaum and Associates, the exhibition\u00a0takes the\u00a0visitor on a multi-sensory journey from Heaney\u2019s origins through his remarkable poetic career.<\/p>\n<p>The curator, Professor Geraldine Higgins, who is currently Director of the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/irishstudies.emory.edu\/home\/\">Irish Studies programme<\/a> at Emory College, joined Norma Burke on the Arts Show to discuss it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5701\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5701','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=28007-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 19:09 &#8212; 26.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much anticipated Seamus Heaney exhibition &#8216; Listen Now Again&#8217; opened in July 2018. The exhibition is at the new\u00a0Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre at College Green \u2013 entrance via Westmoreland Street. The exhibition will run for three years. A partnership project between the National Library of Ireland, the Department of Culture, Heritage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5702\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5702','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=28007-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ArtsShow-17-7-2018-002.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 19:09 &#8212; 26.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,68,3314],"tags":[315,6423,11281,11280,981,1590,11277,2134,11279,7590,2445,11278,2699],"class_list":["post-28007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-the-arts-show-arts-2","category-culture","tag-arts","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-cultural-and-heritage-centre","tag-department-for-culture-heritage-and-the-gaeltacht","tag-dublin","tag-irish-arts","tag-listen-now-again","tag-national-library-of-ireland","tag-nli","tag-norma-burke","tag-poetry","tag-professor-geraldine-higgins","tag-seamus-heaney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28013,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions\/28013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}